Player Quotes

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

There are weaknesses that you have to understand and it takes a lot of discipline for the players to be able to play it effectively and have confidence in what they're doing.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

I knew where I wanted to go, what kind of player I wanted to become and I focused on getting there.

Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.

Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.

The guy said NBA players are one in a million, ... I said, 'Man, look, I'm going to be that one in a million.

My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.

You don't underestimate either players or audience in any circumstances.

I am supposed to set an example to young players.

Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

The role that I play as a lone striker, I enjoy it and particularly playing with great players.

People love a player with ideas, because at the end of the day, the crowd want to be entertained. And with football being only a game, it has to be enjoyable too.

Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

I want to be the greatest player ever in my era.

You can't be considered a great player unless you win Wimbledon. That's the way it is.

I know what it's like to win things. You need a certain type of player with a determination to win. You see it in the eyes.

Reporters don't know me, because I don't talk to them; I just talk to the players.

Either love your players or get out of coaching.

I take my job as a rock and roll sax player very seriously. To do it the way that I must do it, I must be in good condition. The better shape you're in, the harder you can rock.

It is more important to be a good person than a good player.

Messi doesn't have to do it in the Premier League to prove himself. The Champions League is the ultimate club competition. If he was in the Premier League, he'd be the best player by some distance.

There's Pele the man, and then Pele the player. And to play like Pele is to play like God.

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

I am a big admirer of Paul Scholes, he is one of the best players of his generation.

I just saw over the years that the times that we did remarkable things, it was always because players didn't want to let each other down. Players wanted to lift each other up.

You need your best players to play their best when their best is needed

Messi is probably the best player of the last 20 years.

AB de Villers is the most complete player of the Modern Era.

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon.

England have players who can rattle anyone's feathers

Money is only useful when you get rid of it. It is like the odd card in 'Old Maid'; the player who is finally left with it has lost.

As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

If you're thinking something good about your players, say it; don't save it for later.

There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player.

I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.

Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

I can be a much better player. I've got a long ways to go.

I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.

I am and will always be just simply a basball player, my tomb stone will just say. Baseball.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Sad to hear Paul Scholes is retiring, great player, world class player, the English Zizou.

If I have any talent, it's in the artistic end of football. The variation of movement of 11 players and the orchestration of that facet of football is beautiful to me.

Of course it is going to be difficult for any player to get in the Chelsea side no matter who they are.

What invariably distinguishes a good player from a poor one is their respective address positions or setups.

You know as a player that you won’t have many opportunities to play in World Cups - so you have to take them when you can.

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.